Evergreen Community School
2800 Colorado Avenue
Santa Monica, CA 90404
Start Date: August 1, 2017
Evergreen Community School is a small (60 students), NAEYC accredited, non-profit preschool in Santa Monica, California. We are a community of dedicated teachers and parents committed to a progressive, social-constructivist model. The staff includes 12 full-time teachers as well as an administrative assistant.
This is a team teaching position in a preschool classroom. Duties include small group work, video analysis, documentation, weekly team meetings, etc.
Our program requires the following in addition to a BA in ECE or related field, strong child development background, and at least two years of early childhood experience:
• knowledge of social constructivism or the Reggio Approach
• excellent writing and speaking skills
• ability and desire to think creatively about ideas and materials
• strong collaborative skills
• ability to multi-task
• computer literacy
• long term commitment
• PASSION!
Salary: DOE (COMPETITIVE + BENEFITS)
If interested, a personal (not generic), well written COVER LETTER MUST accompany your resume. Please write about why you think Evergreen would be a good fit for you. Please email: jobs@evergreencommunityschool.com
The philosophy of Evergreen Community School is based primarily on social constructivist theory which asserts the following:
• Knowledge is built by the learner internally rather than being imported from an external source.
• The experiential world is complex and intricate, thus learning involves the consideration of multiple truths, representations and perspectives.
• Constructivist learning environments emphasize authentic tasks in a meaningful context rather than abstract instruction out of context.
• Social discourse and negotiation help students clarify and modify their ideas, thus enabling the student to build a personal knowledge base.
To facilitate our constructivist view we have designed an environment that encourages children to freely and creatively manipulate objects and ideas. Our days unfold as children bring into focus what is relevant to them, thus providing the motivation for meaningful and contextually grounded explorations. Their activities are problem centered and often require sustained social, physical and mental participation. The unraveling of cognitive
knots is a joyful process in which multiple realities are explored, thereby acknowledging the complexity of the real world. Teachers stimulate and support children’s learning by challenging their hypotheses, offering additional material resources, modeling reflection and asking children to elaborate their understandings.
Alise Shafer Ivey, Director
310-453-6255 x 3
Together, we are empowering exceptional education.